The Syrian teenager who sprayed four words on a wall and started an uprising
It was a small act of teenage defiance that sparked a revolution, a moment forever inscribed in Syrian history.
Syrian Jews’ homecoming brings hope for reconstruction and a permanent return after decades in exile
As Rabbi Yusuf Hamra and his son Henry were visiting Damascus this week for the first time since emigrating from Syria to the ...
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In Assad’s Fall, an Echo of the Arab Spring
The regime’s collapse should also dispel at last the persistent myth that the Arab Spring was a mirage. The first wave of ...
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Assad cousin notorious for role in suppressing protests in Syria arrested
A cousin of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who was involved in suppressing the protests that started the 2011 uprising has been detained inside Syria, according to state news agency SANA.
Syrian gas attack witnesses coerced into false testimony face new threats at home
In central Damascus, you could be forgiven for doubting that a war had ever occurred. The ancient old city in the Syrian ...
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A voice of the Syrian revolution was killed. But the man who wrote his anthems lives
The Syrian soccer player Abdel Basset Al-Sarout became the poster child for the Syrian revolution with his iconic protest ...
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Syrians return to Homs, 'capital of the revolution'
Assad, Homs saw some of the fiercest fighting in Syria's civil war. Now, displaced people are returning to their ...
Middle East Eye29d
'I could smell Syria': Trauma lingers among diaspora but returning home means closure
Children were killed during the Syrian uprising in 2011 as part of the government's harsh crackdown on protests against Assad's government. They were often victims of shelling, shootings ...
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Syrian government kills 23 peaceful protestors on Muslim day of prayer
Protests erupted across much of the Arab world on the Muslim day of prayer, with demonstrators killed in Syria and Yemen while Egyptians staged one of the biggest rallies since President Hosni ...
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For Generations, Russia Was Syria’s Main Arms Supplier, That May Be Over
Syria would continue rearming with Soviet hardware ... civil war when Bashar al-Assad violently cracked down on a peaceful protest movement inspired by the region-wide Arab Spring in 2011.
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A voice of the Syrian revolution was killed. But the man who wrote his anthems lives
The Syrian soccer player Abdel Basset Al-Sarout became the poster child for the Syrian revolution with his iconic protest anthems. In death, he has become its saint. But he didn't do it alone.